The “Color Ink Book - The DIY Art Periodical” is - as I think - a very interesting piece of art magazines, because it showcases both, established artists as well as fresh faces. For four weeks, the sixth edition of the “Color Ink Book” is available, which includes artworks by and info about Project Detonate, El Gato Chimney, Andrew Council, Ron English, Vassilis Gogtzilas, Chuck Harrison, Jeff Lamm, Pat Moriarity, Kool Skull, McFaul Studio, Jon Vermilyea and Ben Walker. ...

“Pieces of Berlin” is the name of a nice photobook about Berlin. On 90 pages, the book shows with 30 color photos some unconventional views of Berlin, the city of abandoned houses and street art, and therefore the real beauty and variety. The book is composed of analog street photographs by Florian Reischauer and texts by Isobel Coquille and - because of the great success - actually available in its second edition. ...

Yesterday, the Oscars prize giving ceremony took place in Los Angeles and yes, I was not surprised that Christoph Waltz got his Oscar for his “Inglourious Basterds” Nazi-part, because in conclusion he’s an Austrian… However, also British street artist D*Face visited LA. During the last days, he installed two skeleton-like Oscar sculptures, each about two meters high and now referred as “Zombie Oscars”. As you maybe know, D*Face loves skulls and skeletons - What’s the intention behind that interesting installations, D*Face told NBC Los Angeles: ...

The “Urban Guide Vienna” is, in contrast to the urban art guides for Berlin and Hamburg, an foldable art city guide in hard copy. It includes all legal graffiti walls, interesting streetart areas, skatespots, and other places, which are interesting for an alternative urban art tour through Vienna. Created by Lilo Krebernik aka 0717, the art guide was originally invented by the urban fine art gallery Inoperable as a street art and graffiti map. ...

Today is - as I told you - the opening of Carmichael Gallery’s “Re-Creation” urban art exhibition in New York! In addition to Berlin based stencil artist Boxi, also the internationally well-known urban artists Mark Jenkins, Aakash Nihalani, WK Interact and other great contemporary artist like Will Barras, Simon Birch, Ethos, Labrona and Nina Pandolfo will present their artworks. In collaboration with Carmichael Gallery, Ogilvy & Mather New York will host Re-Creation II, a global exploration of emerging art, from March 5th through July 2010. […] Large-scale murals, installations and original canvas, sculpture and mixed media works will be on display… The exhibition will run through July 31, 2010. (ogilvy.com) ...

The Adidas Urban Art Guide is an iPhone application which makes it possible for you to find interesting street art spots. It’s like an interactive city art guide and started with a urban shoe rallye in Berlin one year ago. Back then, about 50 street artists, including Emess, Evol, Klub7, Pisa73 and Mymo, hijacked the release with their Dirty Dancing Sneaker Action. Now the service will also be available in Hamburg! “The city is a gallery. The adidas Urban Art Guide is the catalog. When Urban Art entered the scene, art left the galleries. Their characters populate the whole urban landscape. Especially in a young and international city like Berlin they follows us at every turn like a second population. ...

It’s a meeting of the sparkling stars on the urban art heaven - The Carmichael Gallery’s second “Re-Creation” exhibition of contemporary art in New York City. Curated by Elisa Carmichael, Seth Carmichael and Jun Lee, the art show will present phenomenal artworks by Mark Jenkins, Boxi, Aakash Nihalani, WK Interact and others! “Five floors and the lobby space of the new HQ (of Ogilvy & Mather) will be transformed into a museum-quality exhibition space that allows guests to experience the upward momentum of the selected artworks created primarily from recycled materials.” (formatmag.com) ...

Today I received an e-mail by the Spanish street art crew La Pluma Eléctri*k, who among other things makes QR code street art. Some of you will now think “Wow, how do they do that?” and the others will think “Heh?! What’s that?”. If you are in the latter case, I will explain QR for you: QR means quick response and is a bare codes 2.0, which was created in 1994 in Japan with comercial purpuse. It’s a code that can decrypted using some special software, which is for example part of modern mobile phones. You take a picture and the program tells you what is inside the pixels. ...

Sam O’Hare took about 35,000 photos and invested 5 days for post-processing for that great New York tilt-shift video. I was really astonished when I saw it some minutes ago! The video, which is called “The Sandpit - A day in the life of New York City, in miniature”, shows great impressions of the street life in New York in a technically perfect way, although it’s actually a fake tilt-shift… ...

Pabo (…) isn’t the first street artist who represents pop culture icons- but rather for technique. He makes pencil drawing portrays, crowded with signs, with the pale and subtle colours of crayons and of ballpoint pen scratches. Famous ghosts, in absolutely classic style. Jimi Hendrix, baron jacket and maudit neckwear, becomes an alchemist, lighted by acid glares, with strong and tender features like the boys of Caravaggio. Hendrix, in the triptych in which he appears, is flanked by a preacher, Martin Luther King, and a dancer, Cassius Clay. (press release) ...